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Well I found them just scattered around the box, when I walked into the polytunnel in the morning it was just over 50 F and the box felt warm when I put my hand inside but not hot, I felt the bedding and that was warm. One of the bodies was actually near the entrance close to the heater, the...

Thank you... I do feel like giving up on raising my own chickens right now...but I do have another younger group of 10 that I hatched a couple of weeks after the ones I just lost, they are still being kept indoors, I have defiantly learned my lesson where heat is concerned. I also will not hatch...

Thanks for the support, I feel very bad about it as it was my first ever hatch and to loose them all in one night...I can only blame myself I should have taken more care. I did not know chickens are so sensitive to overheating, but I have since read that they do not have sweat glands and so can...

It is an electric fan heater just a very small one, I use it to keep the frost off my plants its not particularly warm, but I did have it near to the entrance of the box so maybe the heat was accumulating inside the box.

I hatched my own eggs in January of this year and have been happily raising my 9 chicks, they were around six weeks of age and getting a bit to large to keep in my house. Temperatures in the UK are early spring so around 50F during the day and just above freezing at night. As the chicks were...